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Religious Health Workers Ask Justices To Revisit Vax Battle

A group of religious healthcare workers told the U.S. Supreme Court that recent circuit court rulings in vaccination-related cases have heightened the need for the justices to review their legal battle over a pandemic-era New York state inoculation policy.

11th Circ. Nixes Disinfectant-Spraying Worker's ADA Suit

The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to reopen a now-deceased Georgia county employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking precautions to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic due to her health problems, concluding she was let go for spraying co-workers with disinfectant rather than her disabilities.

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New Calif. Law Could Lead States In Closing Arb. 'Loophole'

A recently signed California law clarifies that exemptions and exclusions from federal arbitration requirements apply to state arbitration law, closing what worker-side attorneys said was a gap in wage and hour litigation and potentially paving the way for updates in other states.

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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: July Lessons

Mitchell Engel

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four recent rulings involv... (more story)

Flashpoints In Focus: Employer Risk After Trans Sports Ruling

Dawn Solowey, Alison Silveira and Lilah Wylde

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. that allowed states to limit trans w... (more story)

EEOC Enforcement Plan Signals DEI, Religious Bias Scrutiny

Pierce Blue and Sharon Masling

In light of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently publishing its national enforcement plan cov... (more story)

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NLRB Pulls Challenge To NY's Labor Agency Fill-In Law

The National Labor Relations Board has pulled its challenge to a New York law that lets the state's employment board perform certain NLRB functions when the federal agency is immobilized, saying Monday that th... (more story)

Laid-Off Fed. Workers Lose Bid For Reinstatement Injunction

A Maryland federal judge won't reinstate a group of former federal workers who claim that their layoffs were ideologically motivated, denying Monday the workers' request for a preliminary injunction in their d... (more story)

NLRB Judge Says Worker Unlawfully Fired Over Anti-DEI Post

A financial technology company violated federal labor law by firing a data engineer and suing him for defamation after he complained publicly about company diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a Nation... (more story)

Railroads, Feds Spar Over Train Crew Size Rule In 11th Circ.

Railroads have told the Eleventh Circuit that the Federal Railroad Administration failed to properly justify its 2024 two-person train crew rule, saying the agency flip-flopped from its previous determination ... (more story)

Players Group Says Power Tiff Doesn't Hurt Tennis Orgs. Case

The Professional Tennis Players Association pushed back Friday on assertions by professional tennis' governing bodies that an internal PTPA power struggle shows that it has no members and thus no standing to s... (more story)

300+ Public Defenders Strike In The Bronx

More than 300 attorneys and staff with the Bronx Defenders Union went on strike Monday, one year after the last time the union walked off the job.

NLRB Judge Dings Starbucks For Union Response In Wash.

Starbucks violated labor law when its managers interrogated a worker organizer about union activity at her Seattle-area store, told her to remove her union pin and notified her that unionizing could cost the s... (more story)

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Former JPMorgan Banker Levels Race Bias, Harassment Suit

A former JPMorgan Chase employee filed a race discrimination and sexual harassment suit against the investment bank in Manhattan federal court Monday, on the heels of dropping a similar state court complaint t... (more story)

11th Circ. Won't Revive Cop's Sex Harassment Lawsuit

The Eleventh Circuit declined to revive a former detention deputy's sexual harassment and malicious prosecution lawsuit against two officers with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, affirming a Florida distr... (more story)

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Hyundai Unit Beats Disability Bias Suit Over Cannabis Use

A Hyundai subsidiary defeated a former temporary employee's lawsuit alleging she was denied a permanent position because she used medical marijuana to manage her PTSD, with a Connecticut federal judge finding ... (more story)

Consultant Says Fla. Co., Owner Stole Her Training Model

A linguist claimed in a Florida federal court that the owner of a job consulting business breached their collaboration agreement and stole a training model she developed, alleging she wasn't given equity in th... (more story)

Seafood Wholesaler To Pay $265K In EEOC Sex Bias Suit

A Georgia federal judge on Monday signed off on a $265,000 deal reached between a seafood wholesaler and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to end the agency's sex bias suit claiming the business... (more story)

Wells Fargo Finance Manager Drops Bias Suit Ahead Of Trial

A finance manager for Wells Fargo has ended her disability bias suit accusing the bank of discriminating against her after she sought to continue working from home to deal with health issues, cutting short the... (more story)

FedEx Will Pay $900K To End Military Leave Bias Fight

FedEx agreed to pay $900,000 to close a suit claiming the company didn't compensate its service member employees who took short-term military leave but provided pay for other short-term leave such as jury duty... (more story)

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AT&T Technician In Ill. Sues For Pre-, Postshift Work Pay

AT&T's Illinois unit was hit Monday with proposed class pay claims by a premises technician who says the telecommunications giant illegally fails to compensate premises technicians for duties they're required ... (more story)

Wash. Panel Revives Island Health Wage, Break Class Action

A Washington Court of Appeals panel has reinstated a worker's proposed class action accusing public hospital district Island Health of denying employees meal breaks and illegally rounding time worked when calc... (more story)

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Insomnia Cookies Beats Driver's Mileage, Tip Claims

A New York federal judge tossed wage claims brought against Insomnia Cookies by a former delivery driver, finding that a tip theft claim was vague and that the worker failed to show that unreimbursed costs pus... (more story)

Oilfield Co. Misclassified Workers, Suit Says

A former oilfield geologist and mud logger hit an oilfield support services company with a proposed collective action in Colorado federal court, alleging it misclassified field workers as independent contracto... (more story)

Truckers Strike $2.1M Deal In Sleeping Time Suit

New York-based truck drivers who accused a major trucking company of failing to pay them for time spent sleeping in their cabs have moved to settle their claims for $2.1 million, according to a motion filed in... (more story)

Investment Bank Says Workers' Wage Suit Is Contract Dispute

An investment bank and two managing directors are urging a Texas federal judge to toss a proposed collective action alleging employees went months without pay, arguing that the workers were exempt from overtim... (more story)

Ariz. Sheriff Lieutenants' OT Collective Heads To Trial

Patrol lieutenants for an Arizona sheriff's department who claim they have been misclassified as overtime-exempt will take their case to a jury after a federal judge Friday denied both sides' bids for an early... (more story)